Kingsman: The Secret Service is based upon the comic book by Mark Millar, and depicts a veteran secret agent who leads a young protégé into the world of espionage. The villain is Mr Valentine, a tech-billionaire and radical environmentalist who wants to control the world using free SIM cards, so he can bring about a genocidal solution to global climate change. Kingsman: The Secret Service is a 2014 British spy action comedy film directed by Matthew Vaughn and based on the comic book The Secret Service created by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar. The screenplay was written by Vaughn and Jane Goldman. The film’s cast includes Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Strong, Taron Egerton, and Michael Caine.